All the things You Must Know About ‘Wake Up Useless Man’: The New Thriller within the ‘Knives Out’ Franchise

Get up, thriller followers — a brand new Knives Out thriller has arrived. The third movie in Rian Johnson’s whodunit sequence, Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, hit theaters for a restricted run on Nov. 26 earlier than it drops on Netflix on Dec. 12. True to its predecessors, Wake Up Useless Man stars Daniel Craig as Southern detective Benoit Blanc, who should clear up a puzzling homicide case during which plenty of colourful characters are suspects.

Whereas Knives Out had Blanc clear up a case at a rich writer’s property and the second movie within the sequence, Glass Onion, took him to a personal billionaire’s island, Wake Up Useless Man brings Blanc to a small church in upstate New York for what director Johnson advised Netflix’s Tudum is his “most private journey” but.

“It’s extra just like the primary Knives Out in that it will get again to the true origins of the style, which predate Agatha Christie, going again to Edgar Allan Poe,” Johnson advised the outlet, noting that it’s nonetheless “humorous and enjoyable.”

Right here’s what else to know.

What’s Wake Up Useless Man about? Is it linked to the opposite movies? 

With out spoiling an excessive amount of, Blanc’s Christie-meets-Poe thriller facilities on a homicide on the church, the place younger priest Jud Duplenticy, performed by Josh O’Connor, is helping the native priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, performed by Josh Brolin. After Wicks dies and Blanc is ready to analyze, all eyes flip to Jud, who hated the monsignor. As Jud grapples along with his religion, and police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) assists Blanc along with his investigation, the movie unravels a twisted thriller the place a number of members of Wicks’s flock look responsible as sin. However who really is chargeable for what Blanc calls an “unattainable” crime?

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Do I would like to observe Knives Out and Glass Onion to grasp Wake Up Useless Man? 

Whereas Wake Up Useless Man presents one other thriller for Blanc to resolve, every movie is a standalone homicide thriller. And whereas Blanc is returning, don’t fear an excessive amount of about not figuring out his background.

“I actually love, in my thriller detectives, for them to be form of enigmas. It pointedly doesn’t work once you begin digging into backstory with the detective,” Johnson beforehand advised the Related Press. “That’s at all times form of boring as a result of character is just revealed via motion and the motion of a detective is such a robust factor. He’s there to resolve the case.”

Who’s in Wake Up Useless Man? 

The forged of Wake Up Useless Man features a slew of heavy hitters — together with one star who beforehand performed a “scorching priest” and one other who’s at the moment starring alongside Kim Kardashian on Hulu’s All’s Honest.

• Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc

• Josh O’Connor as Father Jud Duplenticy

• Glenn Shut as Martha Delacroix

• Josh Brolin as Monsignor Jefferson Wicks

• Mila Kunis as Geraldine Scott

• Jeremy Renner as Dr. Nat Sharp

• Kerry Washington as Vera Draven

• Cailee Spaeny as Simone Vivane

• Daryl McCormack as Cy Draven

• Thomas Haden Church as Samson Holt

What are critics saying about Wake Up Useless Man? 

Critics have had nice issues to say concerning the fashionable detective thriller. Wake Up Useless Man at the moment holds a 92% rating on evaluation aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, making it Licensed Contemporary. Knives Out holds a 97% rating, whereas Glass Onion has a 91% rating.

Many individuals have been notably impressed by O’Connor’s efficiency. The critic for TV Information praised O’Connor, writing that the Challengers actor “delivers a exceptional efficiency that is comically deft one second, touching the following, and intense all through.” The Observer referred to as him a “stand out even in a heavy-hitting forged.”

The Ringer, in the meantime, wrote, “The film’s plot factors could also be manufactured, however O’Connor’s soulfulness is natural. He carries the film so far as he can and speaks one thing recent into Craig’s appearing, which is as enjoyably flamboyant as ever but in addition faucets a potent reservoir of secular anguish and doubt.”

Will there be one other Knives Out movie after Wake Up Useless Man?

Up to now, Netflix has solely ordered the 2 most up-to-date movies from Johnson within the Knives Out universe, having paid $469 million for the sequel. Nonetheless, each Johnson and Craig have expressed a need to make extra, ought to the proper alternative come up.

“If every one in all these can actually be what Agatha Christie did, if it may be not simply in a completely new location and a brand new forged, but in addition attempting one thing thrilling, I’ll maintain doing it so long as Daniel [Craig] and I are having an excellent time,” Johnson advised Selection in 2022. “I’ll maintain making these so long as they let me.”

In a 2024 interview with Deadline, Craig additionally teased that he could be prepared to make a fourth Knives Out movie if Johnson “retains writing them like that.”